skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This might be contrasted with “postmodern Marxism” or “postmodern neo-Marxism” which is some kind of pseudointellectual epithet but is seems fundamentally incoherent. Postmodernism rejects grand narratives about society, but Marxism itself is a grand narrative (namely, that capitalist society should be framed as a class struggle between workers and capitalists).

Postmodern Marxism is a real thing too. See for example yet another Duke University Press book (Duke University is really into this kind of stuff for some reason) from 2001, "Re/presenting Class: Essays in Postmodern Marxism" [0]. Another more recent book is "The Condition of Digitality: A Post-Modern Marxism for the Practice of Digital Life" (University of Westminster Press, 2020) [1]

Are postmodernism and Marxism inherently contradictory? Well, "postmodernism" is a very broad and amorphous school of thought. The idea of postmodernism as opposition to "grand narratives" is due to Lyotard, and yes that idea seems rather incompatible with Marxism, at least in its classic form; but other postmodernist thinkers emphasised different ideas, whose incompatibility with Marxism is less obvious.

I also am picking up on the fact that you are obliquely referring to Jordan Peterson, who is known to use the phrases “postmodern Marxism” and “postmodern neo-Marxism”. Honestly, I've never paid him a great deal of attention – I'm neither one of his fans nor one of his haters, I'm just not that interested in him. So, I can't say whether he is using the phrase "postmodern Marxism" in the same sense as those academic books I cite do, or in a different sense.

> The cultural Marxism discussed in 60s and 70s academia is not the same thing as what the Norway terrorist was referring to in his manifesto.

I don’t know about that. Let me put it this way: the World Zionist Congress (WZC) is a real thing, an international conference that was first held in Switzerland in 1897, and it was held for the 38th time in Jerusalem in 2020. So the conference is not a conspiracy theory. But, if you go looking for them, you will find antisemites who will tell you that the WZC secretly controls the world’s banks and governments-that is a baseless conspiracy theory. However, even though we have both a real world factual discourse about the WZC and an unhinged antisemitic conspiracy theory about it, that doesn’t mean that the two discourses are using the term “World Zionist Congress” to mean fundamentally different things-no, they are both talking about the same thing. In the same way, just because Breivik talked about “Cultural Marxism”, doesn’t in itself prove he was talking about something different - he could be talking about the same thing, but making baseless/unhinged claims about it, and wrongly using those claims to justify his senseless mass murder of innocents

[0] https://books.google.com/books?id=0PdqvSOo-rgC

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=qSkNEAAAQBAJ
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Having not read the book I don't know if it delves into the speedups that can come from the fact that pipelines have processes running in parallel. A nice article about how much faster it can be to process data on the command line vs something like Hadoop: https://adamdrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-...

Clearly, doesn't work in all cases but often enough, it's not only simpler to set up but runs much faster besides.
England would have to do some serious work to get rid of all the unpronounced letters in their place names.
Favorite quote:

> “What seems to be happening is people really want to ‘stay in San Francisco,’ but they want to exit society,” Low said. “They don’t want to have to deal with the complexity, the differences, the poverty, the needs, the caring for others that was always part of urban culture. They want to escape. They want their own currency, their own culture, their own people. And they wanted it to look like Disneyland.”
Also https://docs.divio.com/documentation-system/
Nice recipe.
Also Mission Local has a much more opinionated take on the subject: https://missionlocal.org/2024/05/balaji-srinivasan-vc-advoca...
Iannucci's Death of Stalin has the advantage that it's all history - it can't become more ridiculous after he made the movie because it's in the past. But of course the reality is more or less as absurd as the movie, although different in important ways. (Lots of the timing is completely wrong, events are re-arranged, people are shuffled about so that fewer actors play more important roles) but it does have the advantage that yeah, Stalin can't have another even more ridiculous life which makes the movie seem tame, he's dead.
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Do we know if the Meta AI effort is subsidized by the US Government?
I would challenge that a little bit -- I think it is a good thing, given that they have open-sourced the results of the project.

It seems to me to be far better than a company which simply gives 0.1% of US GDP back to shareholders in the form of dividends or stock buybacks, which is a very common occurrence given the size of companies nowadays. Or worse, a company which spends 0.1% of US GDP manufacturing things that are wholly useless or even actively damaging to consumers, the environment, etc.
> I can't speak to the experience of being a non-white immigrant, but I've had other forms of this experience. It sucks to be in a job interview where you have a great skill set that matches the role and a lot of relevant experience, but it's clear that the only thing the recruiter cares about is that you could add gender diversity to a team.

But this is the dominant strain of DEI thinking today, and why it's seeing such a backlash.

The over riding DEI principle is that every profession, every organization, every role, must somehow have exactly the demographic breakdown of the society as a whole.

A moment's thought reveals why this is impractical to impossible, especially in the short to medium term. But this is how everything is evaluated through a DEI lens. Every discussion devolves just to counting how many people of each kind of group are represented in whichever topic is under discussion.

All the stuff about eliminating barriers is just the motte for this Bailey.
Can you send me writing or video of any serious thinker advocating for this? The OP is a common straw-man characterization of the position I described.
A better comparison would be this: would you rather have 3 suits that you wore everyday that cost a months wages, or 30 shirts and pants that cost a weeks wages but are lower quality.

(Also, IMO, houses today are much higher quality than in the past as soon as you account for safety)
The most secure systems are those that are also resistant to rubber hose cryptography.
CRISPR-GPT: An LLM Agent for Automated Design of Gene-Editing Experiments
> is there some other context driving their non-participation?

Muslim Israelis have representation in the Knesset. Their community simply hasn’t aligned itself with the American pro-Palestinian movement. (There are absolutely racism issues in Israel. But it’s not Jim Crow.)
In case you want to expand to more chapters one day: there's lots of tutorials of doing the simple things that has been verified to work, but if I'm struggling it's normally with something people barely ever mention - what to do when things go wrong. For example your actions just consistently get stuck at maximum. Or the exploration doesn't kick in, regardless how noisy you make the off-policy training. Or ...

I wish there were more practical resources for when you've got the basics usually working, but suddenly get issues nobody really talks about. (beyond "just tweak some stuff until it works" anyway)
> The people or organizations making decisions to not protect pedestrians should be held liable for choosing to endanger pedestrians.

Seems a bit extreme. If the incidence of pedestrian accidents is relatively low, it's perfectly reasonable to prioritize aesthetics and cost considerations.
I’m quite interested in the subject, but literally never heard of Rejewski until now and it feels pretty terrible. A lot gets said about other biases, but Poles seem to not get a lot of credit pretty consistently and often get appropriated by the host countries they had to work for. Hope that’s all in the past now…
Never liked Eric, but Google had such a clear direction and vision under his leadership. Pichai, feels like the accountants are running the business. It is ONLY about the next quarters results.
> The threat of serious illness/disability/death is a great motivator, it certainly was in my case.

That already existed before the 8-12 weeks of semi-starvation.
Because most people in technology have end users. Quite often those end users come from many different backgrounds. Having more people in the room who can think in terms of a larger subset of the user base will always produce a better product.

I work in the post secondary education sector. I am the only person on my team who doesn’t have a college degree. I often have to help them see our software through that lense so that we don’t make assumptions that all of our users are college educated or even know what their post-high school options are.
I wonder if there is a wrongful death basis to sue a city into having safe streets. I know in the US disability groups have successfully sued cities due to a lack of curb ramps.
A metaphor for cloud serverless?
> serious thinker

No True Scotsman detected.
STEM is something you gotta have some substantial internal motivation to do, such as doing it for a hobby. The kind of work I enjoy, you gotta really like it or it isn't going to work out for you.

For example, I was taking machines apart when I was 7 trying to figure out how they worked. I'd break open resistors to see what was inside - just baffling grey dust. Eventually I took bicycles apart, then engines, then whole cars. It was just foregone that I was going to engineering school.
> Motte and bailey accusations only work if the statemnts in question are being made by the same person.

I think it's perfectly justified in cases where debater self-identifies as part of the "bailey" community -- that is, if in other contexts the debater wouldn't oppose people arguing for the bailey position.
Reversibility of quantum resources through probabilistic protocols
> response is usually something along the lines of "I'm not sure any state has a right to exist, or that it's even a meaningful concept to apply to political entities rather than people"

It generally means do they have the rights of a nation-state. That said, I agree it’s a new way of framing the one-state solution.
I initially expected this to be about how Vercel/Next is trying to takeover React and morph it into Vercel.js
Note: The correct word is "Israeli", not "Israelo".

> It's of note that while there about 20% muslims in Israel, there's about zero jewish person in Gaza (there are some israelo-palestinian though) and zero jewish person in Iran. Or close to that.

Actually, while there are ~zero Jewish people in almost all Arab countries, Iran specifically has an actual Jewish population, though a very small one - I think the current estimate is around 8,000.
There was a lot of time spent securing browsers from Java applets, etc and others that free reign over the computers BUS.

If you are in serious, actual need of serial interface today - get a device like a Tibbo and hit it over TCP/IP. I don't work for Tibbo but have use their products in the past.
try tell that to the people insisting we need it
It seems to me like we’re probably not too far apart in our opinions- and perhaps each of us bringing a separate set of experiences is letting us come to a better and more nuanced view.

I still do personally think that at a high level diverse teams and companies do tend to be better than non-diverse ones, especially when you have many axes of diversity. I imagine that some of that is direct benefit when someone is able to pull on their experiences to directly benefit a project, and some of it is simply that teams who hire the best people without artificial barriers will both be better and tend to be more diverse.

That’s observational rather than prescriptive though. When it comes to individual teams and individual hiring decisions I’d never advocate for anything other than hiring the best available candidate. Similarly, while you can say that across the population having diversity is good, you shouldn’t assume any specific part of an individual’s background or experience should manifest in any particular way.

All that said, I do think understanding the general ways that different aspects of a persons background impacts their work experience is a necessary part of building an effective workforce. How can you remove artificial barriers without taking time to understand what those barriers are?

Although I’ve had my own negative experiences at times, my experience overall is that most DEI initiatives I’ve been involved with have not been unaware of the risks and nuance, and people involved are usually trying to do the right things. I don’t think modern DEI approaches are overall worse- just more controversial because of broader social, cultural, and political tensions.
How is that relevant? There’s multiple Arab parties in Israeli politics. None of them wield any serious power because the people with the diverse set of views they attempt to represent don’t vote.
Up in the northeastern USA there was a discount retail (department store) chain called Caldor:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldor

My mom used to buy small appliances and Christmas gifts there -- and she always called it Caldor's.

Clothes, she usually bought at Marshalls -- which hasn't had an apostrophe since 1974.
If somebody's looking to Starbucks for "serious coffee" the problem isn't society, it's between their keyboard and chair.
> Impractical compared to what? The U.S. burns about 4 million barrels of gasoline and about the same amount of diesel per day, mostly just pushing ground vehicles around. That sort of works, but I wouldn't call it practical in the long run.

Maybe you mean it isn't 'sustainable'? ICE vehicles are the epitome of practical, they are used in practice all around the world.

> You'd probably need to do more than just the interstates, but then at the same time you don't need to electrify 100% of the length of those highways. Maybe just 10% or 20%,

The people who developed that project estimated they'd need to implement it on 25% of all roads. Also the project is just in a technical demonstrator phase. It is literally just a tech demo, and there are still major concerns about adoption, implementation, and maintenance.

> This is all kind of simplistic and hand-wavey, but it seems like it passes the threshold of "we should at least consider doing this."

I agree it should be tested further, but there are likely significant barriers that will prevent it from being useful, particularly in less dense areas.
Anyone still using the term "woke" in a serious discussion at this point is using a thought terminating cliche.

(I still catch myself using it sometimes, and will try to do better.)
Ok how about any thinker.
Yeah, I guess that’s the non-thinking, car-driving traffic engineers solution to “if we put two bollards on the sides of the trail, there’s enough space for a car to go between them, so we’ll save some money while we make things SAFER.”

The amount of stupid cycling infrastructure I see is pretty mind-blowing. It’s very obvious traffic engineers have zero interest in actually building multi-model infrastructure, instead just doing a box-checking exercise to get those federal road dollars.
Ergodicity Economics: A Primer (2020)
Huh? They simply refuse to vote. They could have considerable power to transform Israeli politics if they did.
> On the basis that I have read and compared it myself for about two decades.

And you can't give one example?
> But he didn't. Unless something went spectacularly wrong in translation, what I read is that he said in very clear terms that Israel will absolutely invade.

A temporary ceasefire also creates room for the opposition to create pressure to call for elections. That’s difficult to do while a war is ongoing.
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Actually, as far as I understand it, most have historically preferred not to engage with the Israeli political system for ideological reasons. This is changing somewhat over the last few years.

Though I'm not a member of that group, so I don't want to misrepresent "their" views (and of course there is no such thing as "their" views, as you mentioned, they are a large and fairly diverse group).

> I doubt, for example, many of them are in favour of a one-state solution.

Why do you say that?
Imo it's very different bc the ideology pledge itself is mostly distracting from the real purpose of the dei statement (again imo), which is to provide a way to select employees based on race, etc, without it being the explicit reason.

A better comparison would be if instead of an anti-theft pledge, there were a ten-commandments plus beatitudes test/ statement, without referencing the source religion. Maybe call it a morality pledge.

It's essentially a religious test hiding behind another name and terms, and even if it doesn't explicitly discriminate based on religion, it's obviously designed so that people of certain religions do better.

And filters people not from those religions by boosting those who essentially share the same values, or can fake it.

In the same way, dei doesn't explicity select for diversity applicants, but for people who are explicitly pro-diversity-applicant.

Which doesn't sound quite as pure of you replace "diversity" with any of the approved / included groups...

'I'm not picking applicant based on them being black, but based on them having an ideology that is pro-black-applicant.'

Although sadly we've normalized it to crossing that line as well, with the last SCOTUS nominee.
Yep, when I was developing this I played with some of these non-intended use cases, even though they wouldn't make sense in reality. Technically, what you did was overlay one module on top of another, with the illusion of there being an L-shaped door.

And it would look very weird, but I suspect it may be possible to assemble the cabinets with these odd shaped doors or drawers...
Not exactly coding but I have been nerding out of Alfred workflows. With the ability to open browsers tabs based on url patterns and fire JavaScript or click the mouse on x,y coordinates I am saving a lot of time of repetitive actions. I’m not sure how I lived without Alfred for so long.
Starbucks is a place to purchase overprice hipster milkshakes designed for people who purport to be adults, but put sprinkles on their drink.
I'm with you on this one. I take pride in being out of tune with pop culture, I much prefer to focus on my real-life relationships, tech, personal projects, etc. This DEI stuff seems to change so rapidly that I often have no clue whether something I said was OK or not OK in the eyes of the overlords. It's caused me quite a bit of anxiety, especially during the peak of it in June 2020.
A web cam doesn't seem like a universal interface to plug in anything through.
https://truthout.org/articles/the-far-right-regards-human-in...
It's quite telling that the MIT president was too scared to announce this despite only 1 in 20 faculty supporting DEI statements.
FWIW, in C++11, a class C can similarly cooperate to enable reconstructing a shared_ptr from a raw one by deriving from std::enable_shared_from_this<C>.
If you're comfortable with some soldering/de-soldering, you can replace the entire chip in some cases. I did so with some downlights a while ago. They've been working great with Tasmota for some months now: https://imgur.com/a/A9donLJ. This is the post that gave me the confidence to do it: https://blakadder.com/replace-tuya-cb2l-wb2l-bw2l/
Every immigrant was treated poorly initially, but nothing compares to the special hell inflicted on African slaves brought to this country. With the possible exception of the Native Americans.
I stopped going to places where they ask for tips.

I also stopped going to places where it's expected to tip, like sit-down restaurants.

I still go to diner-style places and franchises, in my country there's no tipping bs going on in those kind of places.
> instead of knowing there was bias

Why do you automatically assume this? Might be related to why people wanted to hide these numbers.
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Not bizarre at all. Lots of history available on the need for browsers to remain independent and secured away from the computer itself or security is no longer a thing.
P.S. They acknowledge this:
“... our preliminary experiments show that such method might not be helpful, and even harmful, to open-ended text generation tasks. During generation, ∞-gram can make odd mistakes (e.g., predicting totally irrelevant tokens) which makes the model to digress. Thus this combined model is not ready to replace neural LMs. Additional investigation is required to make inf-gram best contribute to text generation.”
Thanks for the correction in the name.

The book accompanying the TV series is also brilliant:

https://archive.org/details/secretwar0000john

It goes into more detail about many things that didn't make it into the TV series.

RV Jones' book is great, if you enjoyed it, his follow up book, "Reflections on Intelligence", covers a lot of secrets that he couldn't mention at the time of publishing his original book.
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I should go into the GPU firmware, driver, and compiler business.
I mean, we're talking about making the napkin sketch that you hand to the real draftsman. The format really doesn't matter; they want a PDF (or whatever). They are not going to open your HTML/CSS/JS tool even if it would be trivial to them. They have better things to do with their lives. So what tool you choose is up to you and should be whatever is best for you. It doesn't matter what the shop is using.

Proper constraint-based drafting is indeed quite hard! But I think the whole "lay out this 2D grid-like structure with a few rectangles" problem is probably one of the first things anyone would learn to do with it, and I'd submit that it is indeed probably about a couple of hours' work, for someone already reasonably technical. The moment there's more than a single sketch involved, or complex geometry in that single sketch, I agree with you that it's asking too much.

The real benefit is that you are starting to learn something new. CSS is not going to help you (insane contortions aside? I really don't want to find out) when things like circles appear. And yet, if you know how to do 2D sketches, you can find yourself using them to solve other problems, just because you already know how to do it. And that's pretty cool! (For example, I've had living rooms that were just awful to lay out. It was a real nightmare to figure out how to get a TV into that place. So I sketched it up and messed around until I got something viable. My original plan was just to print out some pieces of paper to scale, then mess around with those, but it was soon clear I could do it all onscreen, so I did.)
> actually filtering without considering those criteria and yet ending up with a ‘good’ set of numbers based on those criteria is actually impossible

If there is an underlying difference in quality, yes. If it’s people from one group not getting applications in, no. There are a lot of smart people gate kept from opportunities due to trivial things like application fees.